Infinite Unknown

- So You Want To Retire? Five Disturbing Statistics About Retirement: An Infographic (ZeroHedge, Jan 11, 2013):

To all Americans in their twenties, thirties, forties, or even fifties, naively looking forward to their retirement, we have two words: “good luck.”One look at the flow chart below and we can’t help but wonder: just how many Americans actually follow the “plan” of what they should do to prepare for retirement. A million? Two? Less? And how soon before the government decides it knows what’s best for everyone in this particular touchy topic – because since the US welfare system is now hopelessly broken and unsustainable, then the retirement “option” for virtually everyone is a non-starter – and begins imposing behavioral mandates, not to mention taxes, to “steer” the population into the proper “avenues” and “channels”?

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